The three weird sisters are making a deed:
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through
the fog and filthy air" |
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Banquo and Macbeth meet the three weird sisters
for the first time:
"What are these? So withered
and so wild in their attire
that
look not like the inhabitants of the Earth. And yet are on it?
Speak if you can. What are you?" |
The weird sisters greet Macbeth and predict his
future:
"All hail, Macbeth. Hail to
thee, Thane of Glamis.
All hail, Macbeth. Hail to
thee, Thane of Cawdor.
All hail, Macbeth, that
shall be king hereafter."
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Macbeth is made Thane of Cawdor (as the weird
sisters predicted):
"Glamis, and Thane
of Cawdor. The greatest is behind." |
Macbeth meets King Duncan:
"Welcome hither.
I have begun to plant thee
and will labour to
make thee full of growing." |
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Lady Macbeth gives a dagger to her husband, in
order to kill King Duncan. |
Lady Macbeth on the top of the tower:
"The raven
himself is hoarse,
that croaks
the fatal entrance
of Duncan under my battlements.
Come, you Spirits
that tend on
mortal thoughts. Unsex me here.
Fill me from the crown to
the
toe top-full of direst cruelty.
Make thick my blood. Stop up
the
access and passage to
remorse
that no compunctious visiting
of nature
shake my fell purpose."
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Lady Macbeth and her husband are preparing a
sleeping potion for Duncan's chamberlains. |
Macbeth has an hallucination (he sees a flying
dagger):
"Come, let me clutch thee.
I have theen not, and yet I
see thee
still. Art thou not, fatal vision,
sensible to feeling as to sight? Or
art thou but a dagger of the mind,
a false
creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" |
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Macduff discovers the corpse of the King:
"Horror, horror! Confusion
now hath made his
masterpiece!
Murder hath broke open the
Lord's anointed temple
and stole
thence the life of the building!" |
Macbeth is proclaimed King of Scotland. |
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Macbeth speaks to the murderers who have to kill
Banquo and his son Fleance:
"Now, if you have a station
in the file, not in the worst rank
of manhood, say it. And I will put that business
in your bosoms whose
execution takes your enemy off. Grapples you to the heart
and love of
us who wear our health but
sickly in his life which in his death were
perfect." |
The two murderers are preparing a trap for
Banquo and his son, Fleance. |
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Macbeth, thinking about Banquo's murder:
"Come, seeling night, scarf
up the tender eye of pitiful day.
And with thy bloody and
invisible hand cancel
and tear to pieces that
great bond which keeps me pale."
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Banquo's ghost appears at Macbeth's table.
"Which of you have done this?" |
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First appartion (a boy):
"Be bloody, bold and
resolute.
Laugh to scorn the power
of man."
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Second Apparition (Donaldain and Malcom):
"None of woman born shall harm
Macbeth."
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Macbeth's prophetic vision of Banquo's triumphant
heirs as kings of Scotland:
"That crown doth sear mine eyeballs!" |
Lady Macbeth's tries to clean her hands:
"Yet there's a spot.
Out, damned spot. Out, I
say.
One. Two. [...] What, will these hands ne'er be
clean?"
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Lady Macbeth's reads Macbeth's letter:
"While I
stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king,
who
all-hailed me, Thane of Cawdor, by which
title, before, these weird
sisters saluted me and referred me to the
coming on of time with: 'Hail, king that shall be!'
This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner the
greatness that thou mightst not be ignorant of
what greatness is promised thee. Lay it to thy heart, and
farewell." |
Macbeth's famous monologue after his wife's
death:
"Life's but a walking shadow.
A poor player struts and
frets
his hour
upon the stage
and then is heard no more.
It is a tale told by an
idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing." |
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The English army is preparing to attack
Macbeth's castle. |
Macbeth sees Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane:
"Fear not till Birnam
Wood do come to Dunsinane.
And now a wood comes to Dunsinane."
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The English army is lined up in front of Macbeth's
Castle and it's ready to assault it. |
Macbeth speaks to the crowd of soldiers who
have attacked his castle:
"What's he that was not born
of woman?
Such a one am I
to fear, or none."
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Macduff sais to Macbeth that he was not born of
woman:
"Despair thy charm and let the angel
whom thou hast served tell
thee
Macduff was from his
mother's womb untimely ripped." |
Macbeth and Macduff fight:
"Though Birnam Wood be come to
Dunsinane
and thou opposed being of no
woman born
yet I will
try the last. Lay on,
Macduff.
And damned be him
that first cries, «Hold, enough!»"
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Rosse crowns the new King of Scotland, after
Macbeth's death. |
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